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Nothing mattered more to John Calvin than the centrality, supremacy, and majesty of the glory of God. His aim, he wrote, was to “set before [man], as the prime motive of his existence, zeal to illustrate the glory of God”—a fitting banner over all of the great Reformer’s life and work. In John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God John Piper illuminates this theme in Calvin’s life and...

In other words, the great, central, biblical name of Yahweh is explicitly rooted by God himself in the phrase “I AM WHO I AM.” “Tell them, the one who simply and absolutely is has sent you. Tell them that the essential thing about me is that I am.” I begin with this biblical self-identification of God because the unhidden and unashamed aim in this book is to fan the flame of your passion for the centrality and supremacy of God. Does not our heart
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